Re: iTunes update issue

2016-11-01 Thread Blee Blat
I never had the issue either. But then I don't have any widgets loaded because I don't know what they are for really. If you don't have the widgets loaded, then it won't give you update trouble. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you

Re: iTunes update issue

2016-11-01 Thread Blee Blat
You would just need to have it disabled for the update I'd think. Then you could re-enable the widget as you like I'd guess. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you

Re: iTunes update issue

2016-11-01 Thread Blee Blat
Did you check the "extensions" pane in system preferences to see if the iTunes widget is enabled there? If it is, then you can uncheck the box that enables the iTunes widget and then you should be able to get the update. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac

Re: Is Apple's iCloud website now completely inaccessible

2016-10-31 Thread Blee Blat
I have not got the site to work at all here. I tried 3 times and Safari crashed all 3 times. I didn't even get the timezone selected. It just crashed after I signed in and tried to click the button that said to change the timezone. Clicking the button labelled "setup instructions" also

Re: slight apple rant

2016-10-29 Thread Blee Blat
As far as I know, iOS doesn't even offer an update if the device doesn't support it. I'd report this as a bug to Apple. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel

Re: Vertical Splitter

2016-10-28 Thread Blee Blat
I have no idea. What's a horizontal splitter and a vertical splitter for? I'm guessing it splits the screen in those directions in some way but how does this affect voiceover? I figured VoiceOver didn't care what the screen size, window size or layout was? -- The following information is

Re: What We Got from Apple's October 2016 Event | AppleVis

2016-10-28 Thread Blee Blat
I'm sure they have something. It's like everything else. I personally can use a touchscreen just fine but use a bluetooth keyboard if I'd like to type a lot of stuff quickly. You'll just have to figure out what your workflow is. I'm sure someone will get us a physical description once these

Re: Unable to expand and collapse thread with the left and right arrow keys

2016-10-27 Thread Blee Blat
I've seen this bug occasionally, and I'm not sure what causes it. When it happens, the only way to fix it seems to be either rebooting the machine or restarting both mail and voiceover. I've seen a few other keyboard bugs as well that don't reproduce reliably, so I don't know what's going on

Re: Opinion: Correction, Sierra’s storage management tools are a complete disaster

2016-10-27 Thread Blee Blat
Just wow! Sounds like he had a really nasty experience. So I guess the best is to always keep a backup on something that is external and doesn't rely on Apple or anyone else's proprietary tools to access. Hopefully they fix this soon, as it doesn't sound like much fun. -- The following

Re: No more hardware escape key on upcoming MacBooks

2016-10-26 Thread Blee Blat
Yup, bluetooth keyboards for sure, but really they should just skip dictation and go straight to telepathy. Of course they wouldn't want to do that since that would eliminate all their moneymaking tech. But I can think faster than type and I never have to correct a thought with autocorrect.

Re: Downloading voices in Sierra

2016-10-22 Thread Blee Blat
On a related note, is there a voice on iOS or Mac OS that is more battery efficient or more responsive? I haven't found a way to measure this. VoiceOver doesn't show up in the battery status. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have

Re: My plan for a clean install of Sierra

2016-10-12 Thread Blee Blat
He could, but he said he wanted a clean install. If you want to reinstall from a backup, you wouldn't need to format the drive, because time machine would sync it. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns

Re: My plan for a clean install of Sierra

2016-10-12 Thread Blee Blat
That looks sane, just be careful that you don't accidentally erase the recovery partition, just erase the HD volume. If you erase the recovery partition, it will drop you into internet recovery and you'll then have to start with the OS the machine came with before you upgrade to Sierra again

Re: An iOS iBook VoiceOver Continuous Reading Bug, Detected, Please Confirm

2016-10-08 Thread Blee Blat
This is not a new bug here. It has been going on ever since I have been using ibooks, but I'll send in another report. I do the same as you when reading books and it's annoying when they have hyperlinks that pause reading. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac

Re: Apple discontinuing the iPod?

2016-10-02 Thread Blee Blat
If you are serious about music, there is no way is fits on these small devices. That's why I just said "screw it" and paid for the streaming service. Sure, it requires an internet connection, but you can get stuff offline if needed and if my connection screws up I've got bigger problems than

Re: Dash vs Minus

2016-10-02 Thread Blee Blat
Fascinating. You just gave us a new toy. Thank you! -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or

Re: Apple discontinuing the iPod?

2016-10-02 Thread Blee Blat
I did a search and found that the only discontinued ipods so far seem to be the iPod Classic and Mini ones. All the newer ones should still be supported. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the

Re: Apple Music being a little quirky?

2016-09-29 Thread Blee Blat
I'll test this out and see what I get since I use Apple Music heavily as well, I just haven't been using the radio station feature a lot lately. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of

Re: an observation: nuance voices on os x being rather sluggish?

2016-09-25 Thread Blee Blat
It's a problem here as well. Even the compact voices can be slow to respond. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate,

Re: Whart will people use Siri for on the Mac?

2016-09-24 Thread Blee Blat
I don't find Siri to be useful on the phone, so I don't use it on the mac either. I also disable predictive text, all the autocorrect things and all that stuff. Haven't really found a use for any of it. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If

Re: Sierra beta 10.12.1 and IOS 10.1 public beta 1 released

2016-09-24 Thread Blee Blat
I'm seeing this as well sometimes. It seems to be random, would also like to retract some stuff I said earlier about Mac OS updates. The kernel fixes are more obvious if you play with it a bit. I have had a bit of time to heavily load the system and run regular workload through it. Seems to be

Re: Dictation and speech with Sierra?

2016-09-23 Thread Blee Blat
I believe the dictation and speech settings have been moved to the keyboard preferences. It's another tab next to the input tab. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if

Re: Verizon Fios or Vios and wireless performance

2016-09-23 Thread Blee Blat
You should expect whatever they gave you to be fairly crappy. They are not interested in giving you a good router. They just ship out the cheapest thing they have so it will be easier for tech support and such. Putting the modem in bridge mode and using your own router would be better. I did

Re: do i want firewire to ethernet or USB to ethernet?

2016-09-22 Thread Blee Blat
Yup. We're going to have dongles until they figure out how to make wireless actually not mean a loss in quality. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a

Re: do i want firewire to ethernet or USB to ethernet?

2016-09-22 Thread Blee Blat
We should all adopt some nonproprietary tech and be done yes. USBC maybe if that's an open standard. Or something else. Forcing people to one or 2 options is never helpful. At the rate they remove ports until we have free energy we're stuck with a lot of dongles it seems. -- The following

Re: do i want firewire to ethernet or USB to ethernet?

2016-09-22 Thread Blee Blat
Can you get lightning to ethernet? That'd be kind of cool for those times when you've got bad wifi. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post

Re: macos sierra accessibility especially with braille how is it so far?

2016-09-21 Thread Blee Blat
I'm not hitting any issues with anything here. The copy and paste thing is neat but I don't use Siri so I can't comment on that. I might screw around with it just to see how well it learns things, but I don't need dictation enough to care, because often the times when it would be useful, it

Re: ABBYY FineReaderPro not compatible with OS Sierra yet

2016-09-21 Thread Blee Blat
At the rate they do updates these days, I wonder if we'll see 10.12.3.4? So many pointless features and so many updates, for so little improvement. They must be really bored. :) -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions

Re: How are you guys liking the new version of ITunes?

2016-09-19 Thread Blee Blat
Thanks for that. I think I'll order those because they stock replacement cables and ear pads. Streaming music is great for tuning out unreasonable people lol I'm glad iTunes updated that. I did notice that the more things you add to the sidebar the slower iTunes is to respond to things. It's

Re: Braille input with hands on an I phone podcast?

2016-09-17 Thread Blee Blat
Make that 5 friends. Bluetooth keyboards and touch typing are handy. Sure it eats a bit of battery but it works. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a

Re: 100+ iOS 10 Hidden / Secret Features For iPhone And iPad [

2016-09-17 Thread Blee Blat
I'd do that if it actually removed the files from the phone. That's really what I'm after. I figure if you're not using it it should disappear. :) Seems silly to just remove icons while wasting the storage. Presumably you didn't want to use the storage either. -- The following information is

Re: to those of you who use braille input, how on earth do you do it?

2016-09-17 Thread Blee Blat
Well, the whole thing feels a little weird actually since you don't know when you have brailled an actual character as it were. It's probably something that we're not getting that is fairly simple since coordination and hand strength isn't an issue here. It'd be neat to make it work though,

Re: to those of you who use braille input, how on earth do you do it?

2016-09-17 Thread Blee Blat
I wonder the same thing. I gave up on braille input and dictation and just use a bluetooth keyboard if I really need to type something longer on the phone. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the

Re: How are you guys liking the new version of ITunes?

2016-09-17 Thread Blee Blat
Yup. They really should do that because I only ever use the music portion. I'd use it for podcasts, except downcast does that better. They should have file management and syncing in another app as well. The only reason I bother with iTunes is to sync or update the phone and listen to music. It

Re: How are you guys liking the new version of ITunes?

2016-09-16 Thread Blee Blat
It's more clunky in some ways but the apple music layout seems a bit saner. Closer to iOS. Slight sound quality improvement as well. Need to find some actually decent headphones that aren't earbuds heh Do those exist? Getting a lot of calls and music lately. iTunes wifi sync seems a bit more

Re: IOS10 Mail app changes

2016-09-15 Thread Blee Blat
I actually think Apple does better than the alternatives for accessibility. I don't have a clue what to do with a lot of the new features and user interface changes. But there's an on / off switch for everything. If I ever find a use for these features I don't understand, then I can re-enable

Re: 100+ iOS 10 Hidden / Secret Features For iPhone And iPad [

2016-09-14 Thread Blee Blat
I like Fred. It's very fast and responsive. It's just quieter than all the other phone sounds. But this is true in the Mac as well. Not sure why they have all these really human sounding voices. I'll use it for a bit and see how it goes. All the voices other than Fred and Alex are distorted if

Re: Two real real quick questions about braille

2016-09-05 Thread Blee Blat
First question is that the letter sign goes before the capital sign. For the second one I believe you'd just put dot 6 before the c and another dot 6 before the p because you've only got 2 letters that need capitalized but I can check the rule book to be sure once I remember where I put it.

Re: Odd behavior in TextEdit and email

2016-08-25 Thread Blee Blat
Yes, this happens in edit fields all the time, I think it's something to do with the keyboard not waking properly after sleep but I could be wrong. I notice weirdness most often after waking the computer from sleep and occasionaly I've not even been able to type the password to log in and had

Re: Apple Diagnostics Reports

2016-08-24 Thread Blee Blat
I've never received a response from Apple to anything at all whether it's a bug report or an email or a crash report that an app sends automatically. I think they all just go to a black hole. Sure, you'll get the generic form letter if you send feedback but I don't consider that a response. --

Re: Here is the Text of the User Manual for the Nearby Explorer, for iOS, GPS Navigation App

2016-08-20 Thread Blee Blat
I'm not seeing anything here that BlindSquare isn't doing except that they get map data from a different database. So I guess we'd have to get a demo to see why this is or is not worth the price. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you

Re: Mac OS warning when in Upper Case

2016-08-09 Thread Blee Blat
My guess would be that you have unchecked the "announce when caps lock key is pressed" checkbox in the VoiceOver preferences. Are you getting other sounds from VoiceOver? Other sounds would be things like progress clicks and the different clicks when webpages load and stuff like that. So under

Re: Question: How To Disable Auto-Complete in Safari in El Capitan?

2016-07-23 Thread Blee Blat
So we should all email bug reports asking that it be put back because I have over 400 bookmarks that it tries to autocomplete every time I type text and so it lags every time I use the address bar. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If

Re: Safari question

2016-07-09 Thread Blee Blat
Better would be putting something like this in your friendly search engine site:homedepot.com stuff you're looking for -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel

Re: Reading Large Text Files

2016-07-08 Thread Blee Blat
Some people find that Vim doesn't read as well as they'd like with VoiceOver. But TextMate is a similar graphical interface to TextEdit which is what I thought he was looking for. VoiceOver tends to read the terminal a bit weird and sometimes doesn't track the cursor as well as one might like

Re: Reading Large Text Files

2016-07-08 Thread Blee Blat
TextMate should do what you're after. It might also help you code better too. Here's a download link. Don't worry about the beta tag, it seems reasonably stable. TextMate 2.0 beta 10 -- The following information is important for

Re: Disappointed with Voiceover

2016-07-04 Thread Blee Blat
I'm not seeing any problems with that website unless it's with the ordering or sign in stuff. I didn't actually sign in or order but everything read ok with Safari on OS X. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or

Re: Concerned about Religious comments on list

2016-06-13 Thread Blee Blat
Yeah, I will apologize too for contributing to the public discussion. Should really not have pressed send on a couple of those I suppose. If anyone is offended they can take it up with me privately. Will return to read-only mode now. :) -- The following information is important for all

Re: bar instead of function keys on new Mac Book Pros?

2016-06-13 Thread Blee Blat
Yeah, I'm only disappointed that nobody emailed me off list with the logical argument I was hoping for. I'm here in realtime as well. I've got some distortions that need cleared up. It should be a fun and entertaining discussion methinks. :) I'm sure we can work the lack of function keys and

Re: bar instead of function keys on new Mac Book Pros?

2016-06-12 Thread Blee Blat
> On Jun 12, 2016, at 9:28 PM, Shawn Krasniuk wrote: > > What is this "blindness problem" everyone keeps talking about. I consider my > blindness to be a gift from god so if there was a way to reverse my > blindness, I wouldn't take it. If you have a mind to and you

Re: Hosting a website on a Mac Mini?

2016-06-11 Thread Blee Blat
You should be fine with a good firewall and properly configured software. I ran a mail server for a long time on the same box as everything else and what you're doing is probably less annoying to configure than that. Just make sure everything you're using is updated and you should be good. --

Re: Iphone Se.

2016-04-18 Thread Blee Blat
Yeah, actually I don't like the smaller form factor I only got the SE because people were reporting better performance than the 6s+ and nothing I use regularly really needs the silly 3d touch gimmick as far as I could tell so it seemed silly to get that device. Never mind that the so-called

Re: Iphone Se.

2016-04-17 Thread Blee Blat
Yeah, this SE seems to be 5s with a bigger battery and a large speed boost. Which TTS is best for performance and battery life anyway? Is there a way to measure this? -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns

Re: Iphone Se.

2016-04-16 Thread Blee Blat
I just upgraded to an iPhone SE. Only had it for a day but the battery life and quality for calls was very good so far and it's quite speedy. I was going to get the 6s+ but it didn't seem worth the trouble for 3D touch. But this works out rather nicely for the short time since I had it. --

Re: Working in iTunes on Mac

2016-04-15 Thread Blee Blat
I had the same question. Also appears to be a bug if you have several albums by an artist and you use the option right arrow key to go to the next album it doesn't always do that. I think we probably have to report these bugs. -- The following information is important for all members of the

Re: Pdf reader and editor

2016-04-02 Thread Blee Blat
I got this to work here. It shows up and seems a little more accessible than preview. I have not tried to fill out a form with it as I don't have any of those here but the rest seems to work lovely. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you

Re: clearing notifications on the mac

2016-03-22 Thread Blee Blat
Yes, it works but it's not intuitive because you have to interact with it then press it. Go to the table of notifications and then interact with it. The first thing is something that says "today" "clear button". It could be "yesterday" or something else too depending on how old the

Re: Anyone else disappointed with the "big" apple event

2016-03-22 Thread Blee Blat
I think this seems to be a problem with society in general it's just more noticeable with Apple because of the number of innovations in the past. But I don't see how Windows or Android or anything else is really doing anything that anyone would call progressive. It seems to me we're just stuck

Re: tips for using Vocalizer voices

2016-03-20 Thread Blee Blat
Well, if it matters I have 8 GB of RAM and they still respond slower than Alex or Fred or others on this macbook pro so i doubt RAM or CPU is the issue at all. Pity there aren't more mechanical sounding responsive voices. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac

Re: iBooks issue

2016-03-09 Thread Blee Blat
Yup. Same here. Works lovely in iOS but OS X iBooks is a useless waste of disk space. Someone said it could be internet issues but that's not the case here since speed test shows I'm actually getting slightly more throughput than advertised by the ISP. So I think they've just broken something.

Re: alternative email programs on the mac?

2016-02-28 Thread Blee Blat
Do you use chrome for everything or just mail? Safari it seems is just as busy here as the mail app is sometimes though I have found keeping mailboxes uncluttered makes it less busy. The same goes for browser history and caches. If I keep the browser history clear and clear out the browser

Re: iTunes not honoring album order

2016-02-24 Thread Blee Blat
Yah, the database Apple uses seems far too complex for what it's doing. Thanks. I'll take a look at this again. But I guess that's what they do when they need DRM and other cryptic functions. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have

Re: iTunes not honoring album order

2016-02-23 Thread Blee Blat
Which views are the most useful for accessibility in iTunes? Album view for example, which is the default often doesn't show most of the stuff because it shows as dimmed. Also in addition to tracks being out of order sometimes Items in tables read differently than what is actually selected. Has

Re: Any comments on Apple's position against unreasonable search

2016-02-23 Thread Blee Blat
And another quote from the creator of PGP, Philip Zimmermann: "If privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy." -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel

Re: Selecting text in Terminal

2016-02-21 Thread Blee Blat
I haven't tried this extensively yet but the few things I did paste worked out rather well. If you press command return instead of just return when you execute the command it marks the output. Then you can do command shift a and that will select marked output. and then command c to copy and

Re: What to do when cmd-f5 just dings?

2016-02-21 Thread Blee Blat
Yup, pretty serious bug I think. Also means that you don't get braille until you log in either or bluetooth audio and USB devices either. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this

Re: Is iBooks Unusable in El Capitan

2016-01-31 Thread Blee Blat
I'm hitting the same issue here. iBooks is completely unusable and is always busy. I do not know what causes this. Also having an issue where the mac will randomly log itself out if it's under load. What fixes these? -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac

Re: Alex for the Mac and Correctness of Pronunciation

2015-12-11 Thread Blee Blat
Yeah, Alex voice does have rhythm and pronunciation inconsistencies but I notice different ones with different voices and still find all these voices too human sounding and a little bit too slow for my taste. But they're not going to get a DoubleTalk LT style voice for OS X and iOS any time

Re: Annoying pitch change bug when using Vocaliser.

2015-11-25 Thread Blee Blat
Does anyone know which is the most responsive on OS X and iOS respectively and which is better for battery life on both platforms? Is there a way to get data on this? I notice that VoiceOver doesn't show up in battery usage. I would pay for a software Voice equivalent to DoubleTalk if I could

Re: Something To Consider When Updating Your Mac

2015-11-11 Thread Blee Blat
I had no idea that had an impact. I'll try a reinstall here as I did activate voiceover during the installation and I do notice some weirdness here. But that's an obscure bug that we should report if that is the case. They should find some other way to let you know the installation is done or

Re: Something To Consider When Updating Your Mac

2015-11-11 Thread Blee Blat
Except that it reboots part way through the install, if I recall it correctly then it does some progress bar thing which is inaccessible, which is what I think is being discussed here. So I don't recall it restarting after that completes. So the question seems valid still. How to tell which

Re: IOS 9.x strangeness

2015-11-10 Thread Blee Blat
Well, at least your not dealing with the iPhone refusing to stay signed into Apple services after reboots. Also networking on ios is now ridiculously slow expecially for secure connections. I thought it was the router but then I realize that LTE had the same problem. Then I realized that

Re: IOS 9.x strangeness

2015-11-10 Thread Blee Blat
What was your resolution because it's annoying and damnably inconvenient. Because it's weird it thinks its signed out but it's actually signed in or vice versa I can't tell but it's not cool when I'm paying for services that aren't working. I could call Apple but if it's a simple fix I'd rather

Re: ibooks is driving me crazy

2015-11-08 Thread Blee Blat
Yeah I can get menus but that's it. The reading area is always busy. Have I got something misconfigured on OS X? Are there certain settings for accessibility. I read all the ibooks on iphone because it reads flawlessly but the same level of access on os x would be lovely. -- The following

Re: ibooks is driving me crazy

2015-11-08 Thread Blee Blat
Ok, I have a few PDF's that I've just been using preview for. How is Adobe Digital Editions different? And how is Kobo different than Kindle or iBooks. I'm not a huge fan of Kindle because a lot of the books I'd like to read are only on free sample. But iBooks on the phone is lovely if I could

Re: Calibrating The iPhone Battery

2015-10-29 Thread Blee Blat
I'll look at that. I didn't know they serviced batteries. I thought they just meant you had to get a new phone. It seems to be behaving normally, this happened awhile ago but it seems to have resolved itself but I'll check the diagnostics and see if it shows up anything. -- The following

Re: Calibrating The iPhone Battery

2015-10-29 Thread Blee Blat
Yeah, I'm not a scholar of batteries either but over time if you don't run the battery down to 0% periodically you may find that the fuel gauge gets out of sync. So you can have a situation for example when your battery charge says 0% but the phone is still working, or you can have 30% charge

Re: SetUp After OS Installation?

2015-10-27 Thread Blee Blat
I'd check system preferences / accessibility / display and check the "reduce Transparency" setting. That's supposed to kill a lot of the silly animations. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the

Re: These Simple Facebook Shortcuts Will Save You Time

2015-10-21 Thread Blee Blat
Thanks, that's really helpful. I will have to take another look at the facebook page. I had been using the mobile site a lot but since they have these shortcuts that could save a lot of trouble. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries"

Re: Hotspots in El Capitan don't stick

2015-10-14 Thread Blee Blat
Yes, it's clearly a bug that should be fixed. I can duplicate that here too. I'll send them a note about it. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to

Re: question about turning iCloud on for apple Music

2015-10-14 Thread Blee Blat
Yes, this is normal. What it's doing is making your music available for streaming by converting it to Apple Music format. If you had iTunes match it would leave the music in it's normal format. The only difference is that Apple Music format has DRM whereas iTunes match would get you standard

Re: Hotspots in El Capitan don't stick

2015-10-12 Thread Blee Blat
I'll test this as soon as I figure out what the use of these hot spot / web spot /window spot / content chooser things are for. Too many spotted things and I don't even know what you're supposed to use them for. What's the intent of these things precisely? Presumably it's to make things more

Re: Hotspots in El Capitan don't stick

2015-10-12 Thread Blee Blat
Yes, thank you. That explains a lot I'll have to actually use these and report the bugs I find to Apple. It's nice that they have these features but sometimes it's not always clear what they're useful for. But I'll definitely play with these and see what comes of this. -- You received this

Re: Amazon Prime Music

2015-10-08 Thread Blee Blat
I'm glad you like your Echo. I know that Amazon music was reasonably sort of accessible with iOS when I played with it but there was no way I found to get the tunes to OS X since the app for OS X was completely inaccessible when I tried it a bit ago. So I'm not sure how you'd get your library

Re: Reminder: importance of reporting OS X braille problems

2015-10-08 Thread Blee Blat
Thanks for the encouragement. You're right it does get old. I'd rather fix them myself as I never feel good about nagging people about the same stuff. Yeah, I know it's a psychological thing, but I always feel like I'm just bitching rather than helping something get fixed. Their form letter in

Re: Incredibly irritating problem with braille input on I O S

2015-10-08 Thread Blee Blat
I've been reading this thread and I'm trying this out but I have large hands and long fingers and a 5s and I'm not sure how to hold the phone to comfortably reach the dots. So it's clearly something you have to screw with for more than 30 seconds to get to work but I could see where it could

Re: Incredibly irritating problem with braille input on I O S

2015-10-08 Thread Blee Blat
Oh, ok, yes I was able to make it work similar to what you're describing. You are right that you do have to play with it a bit. I'll screw around with it until it works. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from

Re: Incredibly irritating problem with braille input on I O S

2015-10-08 Thread Blee Blat
Yeah, it's just training fingers that takes a bit of time but I could see how you could get really fast input with that. I type more than I braille but touch typing doesn't really lend itself well to tiny devices. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: Braille Support in OS X

2015-10-06 Thread Blee Blat
Yes, that's the biggest problem is no independent braille cursor and not enough customizations. Also that would fix the cursor routing issues as well. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop

Re: Braille Support in OS X

2015-10-05 Thread Blee Blat
I don't find dots 7 and 8 hard to read with text I just don't understand why I would need to know the position of the VoiceOver cursor without knowing the positions of the system cursor. I think they should have separate braille and speech cursors as well as the system cursor. The user should

Re: Best Way to Use Spotlight Search

2015-10-05 Thread Blee Blat
Yeah, you'd have to use grep to look inside files so it saves an extra command. UNIX find will use the slocate and whatis databases as well for faster searches. I don't know how those compare with other spotlight indexes. It seems like a way to collect data more than help me find it and I'm

Re: 10.11 and braille

2015-10-05 Thread Blee Blat
Thanks, I tried to word it reasonably well, and I'm glad at least some others are having the same issues. I guess all we can do is send feedback and maybe they'll pay attention. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe

Re: 10.11 and braille

2015-10-05 Thread Blee Blat
Yeah, I can't test the misspelled thing because I turn autocorrect and predictive off on everything. And yet still some applications try to correct things or tell me about misspelled words but that's another thread. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: 10.11 and braille

2015-10-04 Thread Blee Blat
I have a display but I may be hitting different bugs than others so I wouldn't mind a list either. I have noticed that cursor routing is useless because there is no separate braille cursor or braille doesn't follow the system cursor it just moves the voiceover cursor which isn't what should

Re: Best Way to Use Spotlight Search

2015-10-03 Thread Blee Blat
I'm with you. I don't understand why I would use Spotlight when I could easily just use the UNIX find command from a terminal, or I know where my files. I've turned off all the spotlight options and turned off dictation and Siri because it gets things wrong pretty much all the time. I also turn

Re: interesting observation with safari 9

2015-10-02 Thread Blee Blat
The only way I know of to back out of the beta program is to reinstall the Os to stable. Once you've done that, go into system preferences > app store and find the change button next to prerelease updates. Click on that and disable it and then you won't see more beta updates. It will still

Re: El Kapitan.

2015-09-18 Thread Blee Blat
> On Sep 18, 2015, at 17:16, Shawn Krasniuk wrote: > > I've got a question for you guys. If you think El Capitan is a stupid name > for an OS, what would you rather have Apple call it? The only reason they > called it El Capitan is to make additions to Yosemite. Why even

Re: My thoughts on the Apple Public Beta Program

2015-07-31 Thread Blee Blat
I will not be enrolling in future betas most likely for the simple reason that although the beta program is good they ship developers different betas than the public which makes no sense to me at all! Never mind that I still don't understand why people are hesitant to discuss public beta

Re: My music collection

2015-07-06 Thread Blee Blat
How did you go about removing the local music without removing it from your library? I'd like to do similar here as music is my largest data chunk and Apple Music has better quality versions of a lot of stuff that I had plus this is obviously more convenient than trying to sync 300 GB of data

Re: My music collection

2015-07-06 Thread Blee Blat
Interesting. It uploaded custom albums just fine here. I was able to stream several that aren't in Apple's collection. I'm not sure what tags it matches on maybe yours weren't tagged acceptably. I have some unknown albums that are improperly tagged that it won't stream but it uploaded them it

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